PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS INC
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Mission Statement
Pace provides girls and young women an opportunity for a better future through education, counseling, training, and advocacy.
About This Cause
Pace is a nationally recognized and research based model that features a balanced emphasis on academics and social services with a focus on the future for middle and high-school aged girls and young women. The foundation of Pace is the gender-responsive culture, providing a safe environment that celebrates girls, services that take into account how girls learn and develop, and staff members who understand the lives of girls and can respond to their strengths and challenges. With a demonstrated record of success, Pace uses a holistic, strength-based and asset building model specifically responsive to the needs of girls and is recognized as among the most effective programs in the country for keeping girls from entering the juvenile justice system. Pace's goals are to ensure that all girls have the opportunity to lead productive, engaged and fulfilling lives; prevent girls from entering the costly juvenile justice system and reduce the significant long term consequences to girls associated with teen pregnancy, substance abuse, dropping out of school, unemployment and long term economic dependency. Pace operates in 25 communities throughout Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, providing multi-faceted, gender-responsive services to more than 3,000 girls annually. Since 1985, Pace has been successful at reducing juvenile justice system involvement for girls with complex and interconnected risk factors and has successfully provided more than 40,000 girls with an opportunity for a better future. Pace Center for Girls is cited as a promising approach to help children avoid the "pipeline to prison" by the Children's Defense Fund; recognized as among the most effective programs in the country for keeping girls out of the juvenile justice system by the Girls Study Group, an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners convened by the federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; and highlighted as an effective national program model for preventing girls from entering the juvenile justice system and finding success in school and communities by The Annie E. Casey Foundation's KIDS Count report.